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Sculpture of a man's head in beige limestone, facing front. The nose is strong and angular, the lips closed and full, the ears flat at top, the hair textured and cropped short. The wide eyes are deeply carved.

Head (Head of a Man), c. 1941

Elizabeth Catlett

A lively and vibrantly colored painting dense with figures that take up the entire canvas. These include a wizard-like man with a long white beard in a black top hat, spectacles, and a bright-blue robe adorned with celestial imagery. Robed revelers pass behind him on white horses, and he is flanked by two figures: to the left, a medium-skinned woman in a yellow dress holds a cone-shaped telescope aloft and peers into it with one eye, while at left, a light-skinned child wearing a cone-shaped party hat holds a horn-shaped noisemaker to their mouth.

El Mago/Pim Pam Pum (The Magician/Pim Pam Pum), 1926

Maruja Mallo

A painting of an art gallery with wood floors and pinkish walls and nine wood pedestals sporting stone statues, some missing appendages. On the far wall are two unframed works of art, one depicting a figure against a rural backdrop, the other, two figures in hats against a brick wall. On the left wall an apartment building is visible in what is likely an artwork hung with the canvas flush against the floor, but it might instead be an improbable passageway outside—there is no dimension to indicate one or the other, so it almost seems to be both.

Contemporary American Sculpture, 1940

Ben Shahn

A work made of ceramic (earthenware) and pigment.

Black-and-White Storage Jar with Abstract Geometric Motifs, 1890s

Pueblo of Acoma

A work made of bronze.

A Goddess, Champa period, 9th–10th century

Cham

A work made of cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed.

The Elements (Furnishing Fabric), 1810/20

Bonaventure M. Lebert

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Alley, Chicago, 1948

Harry Callahan

A work made of watercolor and opaque watercolor with printed paper fragments over traces of graphite on ivory wove paper.

Tarragona Terrace and Garden, c. 1908

John Singer Sargent

A work made of hand-colored etching and acquaint on ivory wove paper.

Doctor Syntax Returned from His Tour, from The Tour of Doctor Syntax, c. 1812

Thomas Rowlandson

A work made of woodcut and letterpress in black (recto and verso) on buff laid paper, tipped onto cream wove paper mat.

The Martyrdom of Saint Simon of Trent from Schedel Weltchronik (Schedel’s World History), Plate 23 from Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century, 1493, portfolio assembled 1929

Michel Wolgemut

Painting, mostly in shades of blue, of a thin, bent, older man wearing ragged clothes and sitting cross-legged playing a guitar positioned upright in his lap.

The Old Guitarist, late 1903–early 1904

Pablo Picasso

Dark stone sculpture of Buddha sitting cross-legged, hands in lap, eyes closed.

Buddha Shakyamuni Seated in Meditation (Dhyanamudra), Chola period, about 12th century

A work made of galvanized iron.

Bottle Rack (Porte-Bouteilles), 1914/1959

Marcel Duchamp

A print features at its center a version of Pablo Picasso's "The Old Guitarist"—depicting, in various shades of blue, an old man sitting cross-legged, playing guitar. Around it are smaller sketches related to Picasso's work in red and blue. At the top, "Pablo Picasso Spanish 1881" is written in red type, at the bottom "The Old Guitarist 1903."

The Old Guitarist, from The Blue Guitar, 1976–77

David Hockney

A work made of oil on canvas.

Western Industrial, 1955

Charles Sheeler

A work made of cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed; glazed.

Map of North America (Handkerchief), 1811

R. Gray

Large painting of people in a crowded park, brushstrokes are dots.

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884, 1884–86, border added 1888–89

Georges Seurat

A work made of pen and black ink and brush and black and brown ink washes, over red chalk, on cream laid paper.

Flowers in an Urn Decorated with Putti, on a Plinth, early 18th century

Jan van Huysum

A work made of marble.

Cinerary Urn of Plautia Hesperis, 1st century

Ancient Roman

Medium sized olive colored urn, upper half carved into figures and structures.

Funerary Urn (Hunping), Western Jin dynasty (A.D. 265–316), late 3rd century

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